Thyroid Surgery Discussion Forum
Since I felt that if this information may be of use. It could be generated as a sticky.
http://m.endocrinediseases.org/thyroid/surgery_recovery.shtml
http://surgery.about.com/od/aftersurgery/a/AfterSurgery.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1112908/
These articles I felt may...